Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nebraska, soil runoff is still our most serious water pollutant, and dust is our No. 1 air pollutant. Through REAP, the likelihood of devastating floods has been reduced, public recreational opportunities have been provided, and the program has contributed significantly to increased productivity in agriculture, which in turn gives the American consumer relatively low food costs...
...time Hitchcock parried the question, uncomfortably. The man in question, said Hitchcock, had already committed murder and in all likelihood would have used some other method to kill again had he not seen the film. Moreover, Hitchcock recalled, a young boy had injured himself around the turn of the century trying to fly after having seen the stage production of Peter Pan. Should one therefore suppress Peter Pan? Finally, Hitchcock stopped dodging and answered the question. An artist, he said, cannot be concerned with the moral consequences...
...adult women never or only occasionally experience orgasm. He found no correlation whatsoever between a woman's orgasmic capacity and early traumatic sexual experiences, puritanical or repressive upbringing, traits of her sex partner, variety of techniques practiced, or years of sexual experience. He also concluded that a woman's likelihood to climax could not be measured by any externally perceived characteristics such as passivity, femininity, sociablity, uninhibitedness, or degree of anxiety. After strong doses of psychoanalytic theory, we can utter a sigh of relief as Fisher writes that a woman's ability to be sexually responsive is "only one aspect...
...high as $114,000, they said, simply turned up in brown manila envelopes from none knew where. Despite the judge's sharp questioning, the four insisted last week on pleading ignorance-and guilt. That reduced the number of defendants from seven to two and also reduced the likelihood that the trial would ever disclose who sanctioned the conspiracy to bug Democratic Party headquarters last June...
Orange Soil. Scientists shared the enthusiasm of NASA'S engineers. In Houston, they eagerly anticipated examining Apollo 17's 250 lbs. of moon rocks, 3,000 photographs and reams of scientific data. Every sign pointed to the likelihood that the Taurus-Littrow landing site had fulfilled the greatest hopes of the scientists who selected it, that the findings in the area would help fill important gaps in the lunar chronology. Apollo's cargo of rocks includes fragmented specimens called breccias that may have been formed far back in the moon's history, perhaps as long...